John le Carre Quotes

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

John le Carre

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Character
  • Free
  • Legal

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Weather
  • Island

• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Character

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Light
  • inspirational
  • Mirror

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Work
  • Attitude
  • Company

• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

  

  M.I.A.
  • You
  • Who
  • Redefine

• English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Present

• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Protect

• However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Interest
  • Values
  • Privilege

• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Courage

• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
  • Same

• My own proposals for reform in academia include the abolition of all literary conferences and the replacement of women's studies with sex studies, based on the rigorous study of world history, anthropology, psychology, and science. Today, in politically correct America, questions of quality, learning, and intellectual distinction are out of style.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done

• If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • World
  • Complete
  • Met

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • Action
  • Horror

• The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to say that, but it's a personal opinion.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Band
  • Opinion
  • Slayer

• Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

  

  John le Carre